showpartial(1) showpartial(1)
NAME
showpartial - Fetch and display the body of a mail message
that is included by reference
SYNOPSISshowpartial file id partnum totalnum
DESCRIPTION
The showpartial program will squirrel away the body of a
MIME-format message that is of type "message/partial" for
later use. When it is called on the last piece, it will
put the pieces together and call metamail to display the
full message. It is intended to be called by metamail via
a mailcap entry like the following:
message/partial; showpartial %s %{id} %{number} %{total}
The parts are squirrelled away on /tmp, which means that
/tmp can fill up if you never get the remaining parts.
When the message is finally displayed, via metamail, the
parts are all discarded, and the user is asked whether or
not to delete the file containing the entire message.
SEEALSO
metamail(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc.
(Bellcore)
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AUTHOR
Nathaniel S. Borenstein, Bellcore
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